FX scored big last night with the premiere of Anger Management, Charlie Sheen’s return to series television after leaving Two and a Half Men.  The premiere averaged a 2.1 rating with Adults 18-49 at 9 pm, and a second episode actually built to a 2.3 rating at 9:30.  The two episodes will be among the […]

  The NFL PRESEASON took the night. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and […]

NBC stumbles toward the Olympics. NBC:  AMERICA’S GOT TALENT continued to fall as it heads to its season finale, with a 2.6 that (barely) won its hours but was down from last week.  LOVE IN THE WILD edged up a bit to 1,3. FOX:  The cooking duo continues to thrive, as HELL’S KITCHEN/MASTERCHEF scored a […]

Last night in prime time, NBC averaged a preliminary 5.0 from 8-11 pm with Adults 18-49 from 8-11 pm.   The network has often thrown the 8 pm hour out of the nightly average (by delaying national commercials until 9:00).  If 8 pm is excluded, Saturday’s Olympic rating will be around a 6.0 — just […]

A fairly ho-hum Sunday night on the broadcast networks, with only NBC and a few hours on CBS on the air with original programming. Sunday Night Football (Detroit Lions at San Francisco 49ers) will be about an 8 rating with Adults 18-49 from 8:30 pm on, when the official nationals are released tomorrow.  With the pre-game […]

A genuine changing of the guard. NBC:  REVOLUTION slipped a bit last night (to 3.2), but it commandingly beat up both CBS and ABC, and is looking like a true hit, at least in the short term.  THE VOICE, of course, provided a dominating 4.5 lead-in that didn’t hurt. CBS:  This was supposed to be […]

  Another week’s worth of ratings are in, and once again, we ask:  what do we know now that we didn’t know a week ago? NEXT CALLER MUST HAVE BEEN A REALLY, REALLY BAD SHOW.  Last week NBC stopped production on Next Caller, a single-camera sitcom slated for midseason that starred Dane Cook as a […]

  Note that ABC & CBS preliminary ratings are particularly subject to afternoon adjustment because of local MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL preemptions. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) […]